Making a nation reach for anti-nausea drugs, Donald Trump has tried to advocate his ban on transgender people serving in the military by claiming they take too many drugs.
In an interview with British muckraker Piers Morgan, Morgan confronted Trump about the hypocrisy of claiming to support the LGBTQ community while banning transgender servicemen. “They take massive amounts of drugs—they have to—and you’re not allowed to take drugs,” Trump said of transgender soldiers. “I’m proud of them, but you have to have a standard, and you have to stick by that standard, and we have a great military, and I want to keep it that way.”
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Morgan immediately pointed out to Trump that taking medication is not, in fact, banned under military policy. Trump complained that the cost of hormone therapy is too high to afford, though Morgan corrected him yet again. In fact, the armed forces routinely spend much larger amounts on drugs for erectile dysfunction than on hormones.
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Trump’s response: “I didn’t know that.”
Budget reports show that the armed forces spend only about $8 million on transgender-related medical care per year. That figure shrinks compared to an overall budget of $50 billion devoted to military healthcare. Earlier this month, Trump tweeted that he supports LGBTQ equality in honor of Pride Month, though his policies clearly dictate otherwise.
'You have to have a standard and you have to stick by that standard.'
The POTUS defends his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military.@piersmorgan | #GMBTrump pic.twitter.com/heBUjhwiUH
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 5, 2019
Mack
And today he banned Rainbow Flags from the Embassies this year. So much of him being all for the LGBTQ community. If you think he’s cares an ounce for the LGBTQ community, kindly take your head out of your backside.
Loki
Well, sometimes they do, don’t they? Estrogen, progesterone, spironolactone, etc.
Insulin-dependent diabetics aren’t allowed to serve in combat areas, are they? Or hemophiliacs?
truthseeker
That’s all we need. Give a gun to people on hormones and anti-depressants and throw them in a warzone
Loki
@truthseeker
Yeah, I guess we’re supposed forget that hormones (especially exogenous steroids) have mood-altering effects…
There are trans-identified males documenting their transition on YouTube and they talk about how adjusting their doses (going on and off estrogen depending on their prolactin levels) can cause major mood swings. Are we just supposed to ignore this??
white-queer-african
Another troll with a new identity. Loki, please do not try and impersonate a real transgender person with a new name!
Loki
@african
First off, who are you??
Second, who’s impersonating a transgender? I make it a point to educate myself on a topic if I care to speak on it…
Cam
Awwww, it’s cute when the same right winger has his accounts talking to each other.
First, you lied, no diabetics are not kicked out of the military. Also, the “Drugs” trans people take are hormones. So now your argument is that people with testosterone or estrogen in their systems shouldn’t serve? Well I guess that means no men or women can serve.
Lastly, funny, I don’t see Trump saying military people can’t go out to bars, so he has no problem with people drinking and serving, but is trying to say people with hormones in their bodies can’t.
Look, you and your sock puppet accounts aren’t here to debate hormone therapy, you’re here to do what you ALWAYS do, and that is to defend anti-LGBTQ bigots.
Loki
I said insulin-dependent diabetics SERVING IN COMBAT ZONES. They might be able to do desk jobs. And you don’t address hemophiliacs at all… I wonder why?
Hormones are drugs. Especially when they’re artificially created in a lab and are injected into your body. Insulin is both a hormone and a drug. Love your “hormones in their bodies” cop-out. I am talking about hormones that aren’t naturally occurring in the body and produced by the person’s sex organs/endocrine system.
Alcohol and substance abuse is a separate issue entirely.
Gary Q VV
Why bother commenting about ignorant, slimy, little puppet Trump?….. but, I will.
– 1) massive amounnts of Transgenders are not going in and then asking for the operation.
– 2) the operation does not cost from $200,000 to $250,000.
– According to widely cited figures by the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, male-to-female transition surgeries are usually around the ballpark of $25,600. Meanwhile, a standard female-to-male bottom surgery is around $24,900.
UCLA’s Gender Health Program, also said usual costs “reach nowhere near the amount stated by Trump.” low end 25,000 to max high end $100,000″.
This debunked “cost of surgeries” propaganda is only one element of Trump’s dark-money puppeteer’s deviant plan to make our LGBTQ lives more difficult. Let’s instead enjoy our “Prideful Lives”.
white-queer-african
One could say the only one that is on highly, very very expensive drugs is Trump. Not so, he is just darth and dumb.